“Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is the deepest of wrongs I am driven to write…. And losing you was one of them.” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“...sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“…and the only thing common to all of this is that I feel sorrow so deep, it must be love...” — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear… — Bible Copy Share Image
Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance. — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grief is such a strange thing. Sometimes it seems to be gone entirely, but then one smell or sound or memory and… — Natalie Whipple Copy Share Image
“There is a time when death is an event, an ad-venture, and as such mobilizes, interests, activates, tetanizes. And then one day… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The intense roller coaster of emotions will gradually lesson over time. But there is no timeframe for the grieving process, and it… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
“Having both been victims of the law in our countries, I supposed we were more vulnerable to wondering. Grief did that to… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
“Oh, the pathos of it! - haggard, drawn into fixed lines of unutterable sadness, with a look of loneliness, as of a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“My sins were the scourges which lacerated those blessed shoulders, and crowned with thorn those bleeding brows: my sins cried "Crucify him!… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Finnick and I sit for a long time in silence, watching the knots bloom and vanish, before I can ask, 'How do… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“You can't fix grief,” said Simon. “A rabbi told me that when my father died. The only thing that fixes grief is… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The man raised the violin under his chin, placed the bow across the strings, and closed his eyes. For a moment his… — Chris Lester Copy Share Image
“ My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His None ever was in love with me but grief. She wooed… — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Can you remember another time when your chest felt like this?” My fingers splayed across my aching chest as I carefully pondered… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Your lost Joseph will return to Canaan, do not grieve. This house of sorrows will become a garden, do not grieve.” — Hafiz Copy Share Image
The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.” — Donovan Copy Share Image
“Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, Die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft. (Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.)” — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Wearing this mask, you look at my face and see a smile but underneath is sorrow. — Kristina Fedolfi Copy Share Image
Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning. — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
“May the beauty of the flowers remind us of the beauty of our loved one's spirit” — Steve Butler Copy Share Image
I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
“Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. — Homer Copy Share Image
“Time doesn’t heal all wounds. We both know that’s bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.” — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
“It's wrong to give so much time over to mourning, she tells herself. Mourning and brooding. There's nothing to be accomplished by… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image